ext_3421 ([identity profile] rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] sovay 2015-05-01 03:41 am (UTC)

There's an appearance of that trope in Chambers' The King In Yellow (though not in a very famous story), so that gets us back to 1895, but it absolutely must have been earlier.
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